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News havens
Dan Kennedy shows why news startups matter
By Michael Meyer Jul 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The New Haven Independent is almost surely the smallest news organization ever chronicled at book length. Founded in 2005 by... More
Exit Interview - FCC ya later!
Julius Genachowski delivers his stump speech on four years at the FCC
By Michael Meyer May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Julius Genachowski's four years as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission had a little something for everyone. There was... More
Remembering Tim Hetherington
Two years after his death, his legacy continues
By Michael Meyer Apr 19, 2013 at 01:05 PM
Saturday marks the second anniversary of the deaths of the photojournalists Tim Hetheringon and Chris Hondros, friends and colleagues who... More
Ed, out
Schultz’s working-man style was eclipsed by MSNBC’s wonky liberal brand
By Michael Meyer Mar 14, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Last night, after getting the scoop of his life with an exclusive interview of the long-mysterious videographer behind the "47-percent"... More
Big talker
How a right-winger from Fargo became a star of the liberal airwaves
By Michael Meyer Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Among highly paid primetime cable hosts who commute weekly by private jet between rural Minnesota and Manhattan, Ed Schultz... More
Unfinished business
A new biography of photojournalist Tim Hetherington reflects on a too-short career
By Michael Meyer Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM
In recent years, as the American public has grown exhausted by news of war, it has become ever more... More
Must-reads of 2012: political corruption in out-of-the-way places
Crazy things happen in small places
By Michael Meyer Dec 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. Border town edges into... More
Going to great lengths
After two years as the hot new thing, the e-singles market is getting serious—and crowded
By Michael Meyer Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
From the beginning, The Atavist was a small startup with a lot of big playmates. A pioneer in the... More
USA Today’s 30th birthday bash
The paper promises to reinvent the news businesses amid crab cakes and blue champagne
By Michael Meyer Sep 14, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Thursday night, the Gannett Company gathered employees, friends, and family at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, to celebrate... More
CJR Audio: investing in local news startups
Talking shop with investor/ publishers Alice Rogoff (Alaska Dispatch) and Vincent LoVoi (This Land Press)
By Michael Meyer Sep 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
In most of the startup world, capital is everything. It costs money to build an institution and sustain its growth... More
Made for you and me
In Tulsa, This Land Press is defying news-startup orthodoxy and betting that its community will pay for quality journalism — not eventually, but right now
By Michael Meyer Sep 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Across the street from a Fastenal hardware store in the shadow of Tulsa’s aging art-deco skyline, the staff of... More
Required skimming: journalism business models
All the things I could do/If I had a little money
By Michael Meyer Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: media news aggregators not named Romenesko
(Only because everyone knows about him already)
By Michael Meyer Aug 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
All on the same page
A new essay collection suggests technology will enhance book culture, not kill it
By Michael Meyer Aug 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Mark Bauerlein, an english professor at Emory University and the author of the 2004 National Endowment for the Arts study... More
The Ford Foundation’s unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times
And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell
By Michael Meyer May 22, 2012 at 01:53 PM
On Thursday, Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj announced that his paper, once a profit engine for multi-billion dollar corporate... More
What’s Slate been up to?
CJR checks in with the Web news stalwart
By Michael Meyer May 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM
It's been more than a year since we profiled Slate for CJR's Guide to Online News Startups (then the News... More
The Authentic Mexican Cookoff
Gustavo Arellano, Rick Bayless, and the media’s quest for purity in ethnic cuisine
By Michael Meyer Apr 19, 2012 at 02:14 PM
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America | By Gustavo Arellano | Scribner | 320 pages, $25.00 Recently popularized as... More
Saturation Point
A plethora of news outlets doesn’t mean deeper coverage
By Michael Meyer Jan 16, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Consider the situation in many local news markets—some coverage from a newspaper, some from television, maybe one online outlet making... More
What Can I Build Today?
Online startups can win the future by staying in the present
By Michael Meyer Nov 18, 2011 at 09:00 AM
There are hundreds of local and regional online news startups in America, but only about five that media observers discuss... More
Failures of Vision
Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination
By Michael Meyer Sep 21, 2011 at 02:01 PM
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography | by Errol Morris | The Penguin Press | 336 pages,... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
